ORDINANCE NO. BL2017-986

ORDINANCE BL2017-986

An ordinance readopting the Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, prepared by Municipal Code Corporation including supplemental and replacement pages thereof, containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before August 16, 2017.

WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Government, by Ordinance No. BL2017-733 approved the re-codified Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County as prepared by Municipal Code Corporation; and

WHEREAS, Municipal Code Corporation has completed certain supplemental and replacement pages for the Code of the Metropolitan Government identified and dated Met. Nashville Davidson Co., Suppl. No. 26 (9/17);

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:

Section 1. There is hereby re-adopted by the Metropolitan Council that certain Code entitled “The Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee” prepared by Municipal Code Corporation., containing certain ordinances of a general and permanent nature enacted on or before August 16, 2017 as compiled, consolidated, codified, and indexed in Titles 1 to 17, including those supplemental and replacement pages having in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner thereof the notation: Met. Nashville Davidson Co. Supp. No. 26 (9/17).

Section 2. At least two copies of the Code hereby re-adopted containing the supplemental and replacement pages properly inserted therein shall be kept on file in the Office of the Metropolitan Clerk and be kept there available for public inspection and use. In addition, at least two complete sets of the supplemental and replacement pages described in Section 1 hereof shall be stapled or permanently fastened together and kept on file in the Office of the Metropolitan Clerk and be kept there available for public inspection and use.

Section 3. Wherever in the Code re-adopted by this ordinance, or in any other ordinance or resolution of the Metropolitan Government or in any rule, regulation or order promulgated by any officer or agency of the Metropolitan Government under authority duly vested in him or if any act is prohibited or is made or declared to be unlawful or an offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is provided therefor, the violation of any such provision of such Code or any other ordinance or resolution of the Metropolitan Government or such rule, regulation or order shall be punished by a penalty not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00).

Except where otherwise provided, every day any violation of such Code or any other ordinance or resolution of the Metropolitan Government or such rule, regulation or order shall continue shall constitute a separate offense.

Section 4. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Metropolitan Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentence clauses, phrases and words of this ordinance and the Code hereby adopted are severable, and if any section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this ordinance or of such Code shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by any valid judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, and words of this ordinance or of such Code, since the same would have been enacted by the Metropolitan County Council without the incorporation in the Code of any such unconstitutional or invalid section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word.

Section 5. The supplement and replacement pages to the Code of the Metropolitan Government described in Section 1 and approved herein shall be distributed upon request to the various departments of the Metropolitan Government free of charge. Any other persons or organization desiring a copy thereof may obtain the same from Municipal Code Corporation in accordance with the contract between codifier and the Metropolitan Government. The Metropolitan Clerk shall notify all Davidson County Judges of the Metropolitan General Sessions, Circuit, Chancery and Criminal Courts that the supplemental and replacement pages to the Code of the Metropolitan Government which are described in Section 1 hereof are available.

Section 6. That this readoption of the Code of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County shall be cited in Sections 1.01.010 through 1.01.050, inclusive, of said Code.

Section 7. The ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Introduced:	November 21, 2017
Passed First Reading:	November 21, 2017
Referred to:	Rules, Confirmations, and Public Elections Committee
Passed Second Reading:	December 5, 2017
Passed Third Reading:	December 19, 2017
Approved:	December 20, 2017
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